Browsing Theses by Subject "religious studies"
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The Atlas of Legal Fictions
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-13)The Jewish Eruv is a defined physical area that symbolically extends the ‘home,’ beyond its walls and into the community. Purposefully built to be undetectable to the untrained eye, Eruvin are present, yet hidden, in the ... -
Thirsty Land into Springs of Water: Negotiating a Place in Canada as Latter-day Saints, 1887-1947
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-17)This dissertation examines how Latter-day Saints—originally an American tradition—expanded into an international religion beginning with their settlement on Canadian soil. The “Americanization thesis” promoted by scholars ...